Door-mat



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DOOR MAT.-

Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

(No Model.)

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I J. G. BATTELLE.

DOOR MAT.

(No Model.)

Patented Mar. 3,1891.

UNTTED STATES PATENT Futon.

JOHN G. BATTELLE, OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

DOOR-MAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,456, dated March 3, 1891.

Application filed January 9, 1888. Serial No. 260,258. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. BATTELLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Covington, in the county of Kenton and State of Kentucky, and doing business in the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Mats, of which the following is a specification.

The several features of my invention and the advantages arising from their use, conjointly or otherwise, will be apparent from the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a top view of a door-matembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of part of the mat. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a mat illustrating one feature of myiuvention. Fig. 4 is aplan view of a mat illustrating a feature of my invention. Fig. 5 shows a door-mat the same as in Fig. 1, but without any frame.

The narrow strip or ribbon A is corrugated from end to end. In forming the mat this ribbon is folded back and forth upon itself in such manner that the tops of the corrugations abut against each other, as shown in the drawings. To hold in place the mat so folded, the rods B are employed, passing through aligned openings d in the ribbon. Since it would be inconvenient, if not impossible, to h'aveasingle ribbon long enough to make all sizes of mats, it becomes necessary to join the ribbons to make work continuous. The termination of the old ribbon and the beginning of the new one are made to come at one of the rods 13, as indicated in Fig. 1. In this way the rod serves to unite the two ribbons. The corrugated ribbons slide easily on the rods, and to hold them in place I preferably employ a frame 0, surrounding the whole mat, and into which the rods B are'riveted. In Fig. 1 rivets D are shown uniting the ribbon at several points to the frame. These rivets are unnecessary and may be omitted.

The whole surrounding frame may be omitted, in which case the rods B are fastened to the outer turns of the ribbon, and the two end ones are preferably placed closer to the end of the mat, as shown in Fig. 5.

Instead of a continuous ribbon, a series of corrugated strips or ribbons extending only the length of the mat may be employed. In the form shown in Fig. 3 the rods 13' are omitted and the end corrugations riveted to the frame. This form may be employed in the smaller sizes of mats. The upturned edge of the ribbon forms an excellent scraper on account of the corrugations and the free mobility of the ribbon or ribbons. The mat possesses much elasticity, particularly in every lateral direction. Fig. at also illustrates this feature of my invention. The edges of the ribbon accommodate themselves to the surface of the foot, thereby touching the foot at different points and enabling the sole to be thoroughly cleaned. The ribbons yield gently as the foot is passed or drawn over them in the act of cleaning the foot, and thus do not cut or otherwise injure the leather or other material of which the shoe is composed.

The mat, on account of its elasticity, is pleasant to the touch of the foot. As the ribbon orribbons are free to move on the rods, the mobility and the elasticity for the most part of the mat are preserved, and at the same time the mat is compact and stron Other advantages are its durability and the ease with which it may be cleaned and the fact that it may be used to equal advantage on either face.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the continuous folded corrugated ribbon A and transverse binding- 8 5 rods B, on which the ribbon is free to slide, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination of the continuous folded corrugated ribbon A, transverse binding-rods B, and surrounding frame C, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a door-mat, the combination of a surrounding frame and a continuous folded corrugated ribbon, the ribbons not crossing one another, but lying alongside of each other, the curved flattened part of one ribbon being close to the curved part of the adjacent ribbon, the ribbons being supported by the transverse binding-rods fastened to the frame and passing through said swelled flattened porwe tion of the ribbons loosely, leaving the ribbons free to slide on said rods, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

1. A door-mat consisting of aseries of flexible rows of corrugated ribbon and guiderods the said rows of ribbons in the same relative for the said rows to slide on, pnssinglatierally' POSil'lOilS with regard to eaen other, substanthrough holes in the ribbons and provided tielly as and for the purpose set forth.

with retaining-heads at. each end, substan- 5 tially as and for the purpose set forth. JOHN G. BATTELLE. 5. A door-mat consisting of a. series of lat- Attest: orally-flexible rows of corrugated ribbon and A. L. HERRLINGEB, inflexible retaining devices for maintaining G. A. \V. GARER. 

